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Welcome to our annual DPAC Festival!

 

The Dallas Playwriting Arts Collective (DPAC), is a partnership between Junior Players, Kitchen Dog Theater, and the Dallas Independent School District to provide innovative programs and opportunities for high school playwrights. The DPAC partnership allows Junior Players and Kitchen Dog to serve an additional 1,000 DISD students through ongoing playwriting master classes throughout the school year.

 

This year’s DPAC Festival will take place at Wilmer-Hutchins High School from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm and features plays from 17 different Dallas Independent School District schools!

 

This program is sponsored, in part, by: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, American Airlines, Bank of America, N.A.,Co-Trustee, City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Communities Foundation of Texas, Dallas Tourism Public Improvement District,  Diane and Hal Brierley Foundation, Fichtenbaum Charitable Trust, George Family Foundation – Next Generation Fund, Harold Simmons Foundation, Holloway Family Foundation, Karve Media & Creative Services, March Family Foundation, Moody Fund for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Simmons Sisters Fund, SullivanPerkins, TACA, Texas Commission on the Arts, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Hersh Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, and individual donors.

 

DPAC Production Team:

Playwright Adjudicator – Erin Burdette

Directing Adjudicator – Tina Parker

Acting Adjudicator – Jamal Sterling

Critics – Tim Johnson and Yolonda Williams

Stage Manager – Olivia Woodward

Light Board Operator – Wyatt Hood

 

Participating Schools (in order of appearance):

 

Wilmer-Hutchins High School

Playwright(s): Dontrelle F. Kayde and crew

Presenting: A Day in the Office

DISD Instructor: Russell Hyland

 

W.T. White High School

Playwright(s): Isabella Berber

Presenting: Trash Cans Come in Many Shapes and Sizes

DISD Instructor: Kristin Colaneri

 

Woodrow Wilson High School

Playwright(s): Camille Rigamonti

Presenting: The Do Over

DISD Instructor: Jenci Pavageau

 

Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy

Playwright(s): Miles Johnson, Jeremy Pittman, Oscar Oyervidez

Presenting: Réanimer

DISD Instructor: Joy Walker

 

Hillcrest High School

Playwright(s): Anaira Marquez  

Presenting: For You? Espresso

DISD Instructor: Yadira Gonzalez

 

Moisés E. Molina High School

Playwright(s): Zulemy Ortega

Presenting: The Hestia Twins

DISD Instructor: Melyssah Colerangle

 

Thomas Jefferson High School

Playwright(s): Gale Espinosa

Presenting: Deadly Ever After

DISD Instructor: Raven Garcia Lawes

 

Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

Playwright(s): Joe Adkins

Presenting: Hark!

DISD Instructor: Lisa Cote

                 

Emmett J. Conrad High School

Playwright(s): Olivia G. Greenhill

Presenting: Goodbye, Galahad

DISD Instructor: Rebecca Maymi

 

David W. Carter High School

Playwright(s): Javion Myers

Presenting: Tell Me a Secret        

DISD Instructor: Jordan Jackson

 

School of Health Professions at Yvonne A. Townview

Playwright(s): Allison Sisavath

Presenting: Next!

DISD Instructor: Sarah Becker

 

Skyline High School

Playwright(s): Bridgett Aleman Torres

Presenting: Girl X

DISD Instructor: Natalie King

 

W. W. Samuell High School

Playwright(s): Fernanda Medina

Presenting: 338 Ways to Cook a Carrot

DISD Instructor: Mary Ruvolo

 

W. H. Adamson High School

Playwright(s): Jazmin Ortiz

Presenting: The Mexican Robbers

DISD Instructor: Kendyl Watson

 

H. Grady Spruce High School

Playwright(s): Alison Coronado

Presenting: The Earth's Greatest Canvas

DISD Instructor: Amy Sausameda

 

North Dallas High School

Playwright(s): Jaolyn Cerna

Presenting: Lovely Gem, Terrible Shell

DISD Instructor: Adam Kullman

 

Seagoville High School

Playwright(s): TBA

Presenting: TBA

DISD Instructor: Annie Such

 

Special Thanks:

Dimas Delgado and Marisa A. Sanchez from Dallas Independent School District, Junior Players’ Directing and Playwright Masterclass Teaching Artists, Lisa Cote, and Russell Hyland and the students of Wilmer-Hutchins.

 

If you are a participant, click here to complete your participant survey!

 

If you are a parent, click here to complete your parent survey!

 

Junior Players programming has just begun! Auditions for PUP Fest and our summer Shakespeare production, As You Like It, are right around the corner! Auditions are completely FREE and open to all current High School students. Click here for more information!

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